From: catwheezel@operamail.com 
  
 On 2006-11-23, YouName  wrote: 
 > after configing my .gnus.el and start gnus, I cannot login in my news 
 > group--freenews.netfront.net 
 > 
 > can you help me? 
  
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 | $ telnet freenews.netfront.net nntp 
 | Trying 202.177.16.121... 
 | Connected to freenews.netfront.net (202.177.16.121). 
 | Escape character is '^]'. 
 | 200 news.netfront.net InterNetNews NNRP server INN 2.3.5 ready (posting 
 | ok). 
 | 503 Timeout after 10 seconds, closing connection. 
 | Connection closed by foreign host. 
 | $ 
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 Perhaps you need a username and password, even though the server doesn't 
 specifically prompt for them. 
  
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